We Love Mo!

One of the most favorite read aloud stories at our house is called Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems.  If you aren't familiar with the story, it is about a pigeon who desperately wants to drive a bus and tries to convince the readers to let him.  It is also a very popular book in my classroom, as it encourages participation from the audience and the pigeon is very funny.

One night after reading the story, I asked Maddox if he would like to create his own pigeon story and he took off from there.  I helped him draw some of the pictures {although you may have a hard time noticing the difference between mine and his} and I wrote many of the words for him {for aesthetic purposes}, but the words of the story were all his idea.  

As you can tell by the last picture, Maddox was very excited about his book.  He is such a perfectionist and got very upset if his drawings did not turn out exactly the way he envisioned them.  It was so fun to watch him as he expressed his ideas and argued with me {politely} when my suggestions did not fit into his plans.  Who knows, maybe I have a future author/illustrator on my hands?  

Don't Judge

I was in a bind.  

The ADT guy was on his way and I had some mail that needed to go out that day.  The mail lady was scheduled to make an appearance around the same time as the ADT guy.  I didn't have any stamps and I didn't have any time to get some.  Then I remembered that the mail lady told me if I put money in the mailbox along with my unstamped mail, she would buy me stamps and give me the change the next day {one advantage to living in this part of the world}.  I checked my purse and noticed that I didn't have any cash at all.  No change either.  After thinking about it for a while, I did what any good mother would do....

Problem solved.

I paid him back the next day and included interest so that justifies it, right?

Just keeping it real.